Adventures in Neurodivergent Space

All kinds of autistic and neurodivergent artists and performers from around the world invite you to come and explore how a neurodivergent creative space works. Here everyone can experience exhibitions, performances, readings, discussions, creative experiments and more, in a new kind of arts environment designed by neurodivergent people.

Adventures in Autistic Space is an experiment in making a space where neurodivergent artists and performers can work and exist as themselves - and where all kinds of audiences can experience the arts as themselves. Please scan and read this short text before attending

The event is twinned with the Inter Lace Work Conference on Neurodiversity and Creativity happening in the University of Iceland from June 10-12, which is also open to everyone: anfinn.hi.is.

Further information about the event:

Art exhibition all day in the main hall:

Megan Auður is the artist in residence for the Inter Lace Work Conference and this event. She is an interdisciplinary artist and community organizer currently based in Iceland. With generous support from the Icelandic Visual Arts Fund, she has designed the screen installation which turns the main hall into a neurodivergent space. https://meganaudur.art/

Martyna Daniel is an artist, cinematographer, writer and Project Manager of Equity and Community Engagement for the City of Reykjavik at the City Libraries. She co-founded an artist-run space in Reykjavik called Listastofan, is a member of Ós Pressan and currently serves on the board of Reykjavik Poetics.

Eva Ágústa is trans and on the autism spectrum, and has for the last few years focused on telling people’s stories from her own perspective as a photographer. The exhibition Queer and Autistic is a collection of photographs of queer individuals on the autism spectrum, with or without an official diagnosis.

13.30 - Dance and movement performance

Aby Watson is a neuroqueer artist, choreographer, performer, academic & activist working across contemporary performance and knowledge exchange. With special interests in stimming, sensuality, ritual, and consciousness, Aby’s playful, stimulating choreographic sensibility explores non-neuronormative potentials in dance through rhythm, repetition, multisensoriality and togetherness.

14.00 - Film Screening

Patrycja Lorenc and Sam Johnson: Patrycja Loranc is an experimental filmmaker, artist, and PhD researcher at University of Plymouth. Sam Johnson is a musician, sound artist, and sound engineer, currently completing his MA in Fine Art at University of Plymouth.

14.30 - Movement workshop in Sunnusalur

An introduction to Gentle Somatic Movement Session; This guided session will offer space to explore your own movement repetoire bringing awareness to the dynmanic systems of your body's structure and flow. Playful, light, gentle movement; no experience required. All bodies welcome. 

Roisin O’Gorman: I work as a senior lecturer at the Department of Theatre, University College Cork, Ireland. Interweaving my work as a Somatic Movement Educator along with creative arts practice and traditional scholarship results in a diverse practice as a writer and artist that integrates and cross-pollinates these realms.

Art exhibition all day with Silent Tarot Readings.

15.00 - Spoken Word Performance

Frida Adriana Martins is an interdisciplinary artist. Her brain was always chaotic, with lots of thoughts and stories randomly popping up, and only few people could see the fine connections that were hidden under the surface. Desy the Desmostylian is the purported last survivor of an extinct animal group, reflects a lot on finding a place to belong, and likes commenting and learning about people in unfiltered ways.

15.30 Spoken Word Performance

Elías Knörr is a post-Icelandic performer and flamboyant protozoan, flag-bearer of the Ginnungastefna-movement and laureate poet who lives under your bed. Before becoming a professional disabled, he used to be a linguist and translator.

16.00 - Film Screening with Roisin O’Gorman